Palm oil giant Socapalm has finally handed over three sacred sites on 3 hectares of land but this is far short of the 30 hectares that the Mbonjo community is demanding.

TIAA has always insisted that its joint ventures with Brazilian sugar company Cosan invest responsibly. But leaked documents show they ignored a litany of red flags when buying farms in a region long known for land grabbing.

In the latest deal, private equity-backed Stone Axe Pastoral has acquired the Moyhu Wagyu aggregation in Victoria’s King Valley from tax reform pioneer Bob Officer for about $25 million.

Worsening drought has focused new attention on a Saudi-owned dairy company and whether Arizona should be doing more to protect its groundwater resources.

Fund II invests on a global scale in production assets across a range of crop types including coffee, almonds, apples, avocados, blueberries, and olive oil.

Work is underway to boost cultivation area by five times to reach 1,900 hectares

Mega-agribusiness corporations are using digital land registries as well as georeferencing technologies to deceitfully obtain property deeds that deprive Indigenous communities of their lands.

There have been protests by the farmers that have plantations in the Forest Reserves as the State moves to hand them over to some foreign partners for oil palm plantations.

The partners are aiming to develop a 390 hectare avocado plantation at Agris’ flagship Ndabibi farm in Naivasha, Kenya

The Ondo State government has forcibly evicted over 10,000 farmers from the Oluwa Forest Reserve in the Odigbo Local Government Area of the state to make way for a large-scale plantation project by SAO Group.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representative to Liberia, Mariatou Njie, wants the government to serve as a gatekeeper in the area of agricultural investment.

Kilter Rural was recently awarded a US$50m mandate from a large US financial institution to invest in Australian agriculture.